involved not only the empirical self but also an elevated, enhanced self that felt secure in God. Jung-Stilling was an active, hands-on person but still resembled a sleepwalker, as Goethe writes, whom one must not call out to, lest he plunge down from the heights of belief that give his life security. For his part, Jung-Stilling depicts how Goethe made certain that the company at table would not make fun of him and his piety, although Goethe belonged to the “savages” and insouciantly lived out his “free existence.” Jung-Stilling similarly kept himself in check, avoided becoming an annoyance,
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